HNS Takedown

23

"Now" I said to Maria, "you are going to tell us what the antidote is, and if you don't, Miles will punch you, giving you more of a bruised face than you've already got", "I think I'd rather have a bruised face" she spat.

"Oh for fuck sake, thats it" said Ben, he marched up to Maria and punched her, not just once, multiple times, each time punching her harder.

She cried out in pain and struggled, "TELL US!" Ben yelled, "YOU'VE DESTROYED FAMILIES, HELP US OUT!".

I'd never seen him this mad, Maria nodded, she was scared and her face was bruised and bleeding, the blood smudged on Ben's knuckles.

"It's in the room where I kept Alaina!" she cried, spitting out blood onto the floor.

"Great, what is it called, or what does it look like?" I asked, "it's called brainwashing antidote gas" she replied, "if they breathe it in they'll be knocked out and will forget everything".

"Good, Miles you can come with me, Ben and Alaina, I trust you to stay here and watch Maria" I said, they nodded and walked over to stand behind Marias chair.

"Are we going to retrieve the antidote?" asked Miles, "that we are" I replied, beckoning the fake HNS members to lift up their hoods and escort us to the room where Alaina had been kept.

"It'll be harder than you think!" Maria, "quiet" said Alaina, who was wrapping a gag around Maria's mouth.

I ignored it and continued to walk out of the room.

We were turning around corners and Miles asked the question I knew was to come, "Celine, what did they inject you with?" "Just with water" I replied, "we didn't want to inject me with anything that could have caused a reaction", "then why didn't you tell us the plan!?" he asked, "because we wanted to make sure your reaction was real, and didn't seem fake" I answered, "understandable, but you should've trusted us" he told me, "I did" I replied, "I trusted you not to say anything after I told you".

We turned another corner and I almost crashed into the back of one of the HNS takedown members.

"Woah" I said, "sorry, but she was right, this won't be easy" he replied, and moved out of the way to let me see what had stopped him.

There before us was what was left of the HNS members.

"You have got to be kidding me" Miles muttered.

Alaina and Ben were standing awkwardly in front of Maria, her face was bruised and still bleeding.

"Let me go!" She demanded, "not going to happen", replied Alaina, matter of factly.

Alaina walked towards Maria and placed her hands on the chair arms and looked down on Maria.

"I'm going to predict that, because of how angry you've made Celine, and all of us for that matter, that you won't make it out here alive" she said.

Maria managed to keep a straight face, but the fear in her eyes was real, Alaina smiled sweetly and backed away from her, bumping into Ben in the process.

"Oops! Sorry" she exclaimed, turning around to face him, he placed his lips down on hers, "don't be" he said quietly.

The butterflies that lay in the bottom of her stomach rose up and started to fly around as she wrapped her arms around the back of his neck.

Maria made a noise of disgust, and they broke apart, "oh shut up" said Ben, "if there is anyway we can torture your mind, this is what we'll do".